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Article 35

Filing and forwarding of applications

  1. An application for a registered Community design shall be filed, at the option of the applicant:
    (a) at the Office; or (b) at the central industrial property office of a Member State; or (c) in the Benelux countries, at the Benelux Design Office.
  2. Where the application is filed at the central industrial property office of a Member State or at the Benelux Design Office, that office shall take all steps to forward the application to the Office within two weeks after filing. It may charge the applicant a fee which shall not exceed the administrative costs of receiving and forwarding the application.
  3. As soon as the Office has received an application which has been forwarded by a central industrial property office of a Member State or by the Benelux Design Office, it shall inform the applicant accordingly, indicating the date of its receipt at the Office.
  4. No less than 10 years after the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall draw up a report on the operation of the system of filing applications for registered Community designs, accompanied by any proposals for revi sion that it may deem appropriate.